> This requires the intentionality of the organization though. They seem to default to managers make the decisions.

if a company doesn’t intend to utilise IC then they don’t have ICs, just regular software engineers.

An IC is only an IC if the organisation is structured to utilise them as an IC. It isn’t a job title, it’s more to do with how an individual is utilised in a company. It’s their placement in the org structure.

> IC execute

IC plus engineers execute. IC are a subset of engineers.